Pretty slick and easy to use. After powering it up and it connecting to your computer you turn it off, drop a bare SATA drive ( 2.5 or 3.5 inch) into the slot on top. Then power it back up, format the drive and then start backing up. I making my first set of back ups presently, and will then make a duplicate set for off site storage. I went with the Voyager Q as it has USB 3.0, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and eSATA connections. Cables for all connectors are included in the package.

I have several redundant bare SATA HDDs sitting around so I didn't have to purchase any for this purpose. I am backing up about 4TB of data so I'll be using 3x 1.5TB Western Digital Green Drives.

I have an older version of Voyager Q. I like it very much.One weakness though... after around 20 or 30 minutes, the HD becomes very hot. Recently, I got a small USB-powered fan and it solved the problem!It's not a simple-clean setup with a small fan, but it's kind of fun!

One more thing for the old version, the firewire & USB 2 connection of older Voyager Q, doesn't work with 3TB HD. The eSata works with 3 TB HD....make sure that the newer one works with 3TB HD + firewire.

I've been using them for years-a slightly earlier version. They work pretty well. I use them with Carbon Copy Cloner on Macs and Casper on my PCs. Only draw back on the eSATA-if you don't have portmultiplier capability on your eSATA PC cards you can't hot swap (without rebooting or scanning for hardware changes)-otherwise the USBs are all hot swapable.